Donated by the West, a Ukrainian Bradley and other Western armoured vehicles having been dealt with by the Russians<\/p>\n
Ukraine has complained about its Western allies’ late delivery of weapons and munitions to the Kiev forces, blaming the West’s delays for its latest defeats against Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe have a plan. We are working to the plan. We are doing everything possible and impossible. But without timely supply [of Western arms and munitions], it\u2019s hard for us,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s defense minister, Rustem Umerov, said on Sunday.<\/p>\n Umerov added that the Ukrainian\u00a0forces were \u201closing territory\u201d to Russian troops because \u201c50 percent\u201d of the arms and munitions reached them late.<\/p>\n He said that no modern nation could win a war without “air superiority,”\u00a0reminding that the F-16 jets promised by the West had not yet been delivered to Kiev.<\/p>\n Umerov said that the Kiev forces had been building new fortifications and \u201cthousands of strongholds.\u201d<\/p>\n However, he added that the West’s delay in supplying arms and munitions was leading to setbacks and deaths on the battlefield.<\/p>\n According to Umerov, while the US Congress was delaying the Americans’ new shipment of military aid to Kiev, Ukraine\u2019s forces were running out of air defense missiles and artillery shells.<\/p>\n He said while the Russians had spent $150 billion on the war since it launched its special military operation in eastern Ukraine in February 2022, the Kiev forces had built and were now using Ukrainian-made drones to sink Russian warships.<\/p>\n Ukraine has dramatically scaled up drone production, and was constructing its version of Russia\u2019s Lancet drone, he added.<\/p>\n It had also produced models capable of flying hundreds of kilometers to hit targets deep inside Russia, as well as more than a million first-person view drones.<\/p>\n Officials indicated that in a time of artillery shortages, home-produced drones would be the first line of defense for Ukraine against Russian troops.<\/p>\n Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has also complained to Kiev\u2019s Western allies about \u201ckeeping Ukraine in the artificial deficit of weapons, particularly in\u00a0deficit of artillery and long-range capabilities”.<\/p>\n Zelensky has been making continuous efforts to shore up more and more guns, tanks, planes and ammunition from the West.<\/p>\n The Western countries have responded to Ukraine’s requests by sending Kiev multiple shipments of weaponry and munitions.<\/p>\n However, Russia has repeatedly warned that flooding Ukraine with arms and ammunition will only prolong the war, not stopping the Russian troops from reaching their set military objectives in the region.<\/p>\n